Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining

by Peter Meissner, Christian Rubba, Simon Munzert

Book Overview

A hands on guide to web scraping and text mining for both beginners and experienced users of R Introduces fundamental concepts of the main architecture of the web and databases and covers HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, SQL. Provides basic techniques to query web documents and data sets (XPath and regular expressions). An extensive set of exercises are presented to guide the reader through each technique. Explores both supervised and unsupervised techniques...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 111883481X
• ISBN13: 9781118834817
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 10.0"